And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.”
The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.
But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”
“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite.
She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.
Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.
The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”
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